South Carolina Basketball: 3 thumbs up, 3 thumbs down vs. Mississippi Valley State
By Kevin Miller
Dawn Staley’s South Carolina basketball team broke some records on Black Friday.
Not only did the Gamecocks score 100 points for the 4th time in 5 games (the first time they’ve ever done that in any 5 game stretch in program history), but they also held the Mississippi Valley State Devilettes to just 19 points over the entire game.
Those 19 points are a program record for the fewest points allowed in a single game. The 82-point margin of victory is also a South Carolina basketball record.
It was a well-rounded effort by Dawn Staley’s team on Friday. For the game, 7 Gamecocks were in double-figures (MiLaysia Fulwiley, Kamilla Cardoso, Te-Hina Paopao, Sania Feagin, Ashlyn Watkins, Chloe Kitts, and Raven Johnson), and 8 players had at least 5 rebounds (Cardoso, Paopao, Watkins, Kitts, Johnson, Feagin, Sahnya Jah, and Sakima Walker).
As a team, Carolina blocked 15 shots and forced 18 turnovers, one less than the total points the Devilettes were able to score.
The win moved the Gamecocks to 5-0 (a record they share with their men’s basketball counterparts). South Carolina basketball has not lost a regular-season game in regulation (they lost in overtime to Missouri in 2022) since February of 2021.